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You really can over-hire and I've seen it happen in many shops If a "10x engineer" is not given 10x problems, they will.. create some.
by steveBK123 2y ago
You really can over-hire and I've seen it happen in many shops
If a "10x engineer" is not given 10x problems, they will.. create some.
- rockemsockem 2y agoNo, they'll leave. You're talking about the wannabes.
- steveBK123 2y agoThere’s easily 10x as many 10x wannabes though
- TZubiri 2y agoYes but it will never reach production. A 10x engineer that pushes a problem to prod is not a 10x. You get to 10x by not making mistakes, any issue you create sets you back ten squares.
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- lowbloodsugar 2y agoIf by “create some” you mean “Identify a major new revenue stream” or “Investigate something everyone else considers great, improve it 10x and save hundreds of millions of dollars”, then yeah, that’s what I do.
- steveBK123 2y agoI've seen more of what someone called "wannabe 10x" making a career of turning non-10x problems into a series of 2 year Greenfield project pitches and failures to launch across multiple firms. You can actually see people pull this off for 6-10 years before they need to do something more productive.
- lowbloodsugar 2y agoOh for sure. I’ve seen people get promoted based off the possibility of the bullshit idea they’ve come up with, and then move on before reality kicks in.